netdev - Re: [net-next 00/10][pull request] 40GbE Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates 2018-03-26

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Message-Id: <20180327.100554.410033062870791379.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Tue, 27 Mar 2018 10:05:54 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, nhorman@...hat.com, sassmann@...hat.com,
        jogreene@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [net-next 00/10][pull request] 40GbE Intel Wired LAN Driver
 Updates 2018-03-26

From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 14:40:53 -0700

> This series contains updates to i40e only.
> 
> Jake provides several patches which remove the need for cmpxchg64(),
> starting with moving I40E_FLAG_[UDP]_FILTER_SYNC from pf->flags to pf->state
> since they are modified during run time possibly when the RTNL lock is not
> held so they should be a state bits and not flags.  Moved additional
> "flags" which should be state fields, into pf->state.  Ensure we hold
> the RTNL lock for the entire sequence of preparing for reset and when
> resuming, which will protect the flags related to interrupt scheme under
> RTNL lock so that their modification is properly threaded.  Finally,
> cleanup the use of cmpxchg64() since it is no longer needed.  Cleaned up
> the holes in the feature flags created my moving some flags to the state
> field.
> 
> Björn Töpel adds XDP_REDIRECT support as well as tweaking the page
> counting for XDP_REDIRECT so that it will function properly.

Pulled, thanks Jeff.